Economic Freedom Fighters

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African communist political party that was founded on 26 July 2013. The party was founded by former African National Congress leader Julius Malema, and the party drew influence from the broad Marxist-Leninist tradition and Fanonian school of thought in their analyses of the state, imperialism, culture, and class contradictions in every society. The party criticized the ANC and the Democratic Alliance for their pro-business stances, claiming that they had sold out black people to capitalism as cheap labor. The party sought to tackle corruption, provide quality social housing, provide free primary healthcare and education for all, expropriate stolen land, nationalize the mining and banking sectors, double welfare grants ad the minimum wage, and end the proposed toll system for highways. In terms of style and ideology, the party was influenced by the Burkinabe revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. The party claimed to have 500,000 members, but it was a minor party in politics due to its far-left views.